ARGONAUT BOOKS

Banine was the granddaughter of Azerbaijani peasants who became fabulously wealthy through the discovery and production of oil. 'Days in the Caucasus' is her memoir: a tale of overlapping cultures, of ideas of East and West, of pogroms, revolution, end of empire, coming of age, forced marriage and multiple escapes - to Persia, Georgia and eventually Paris. Reviews "An effervescent and irreverent feat of recollection and imagination-epic in sweep yet intimate in tone-that introduces the reader to an exotic, antique world and to characters so vividly drawn that their raucous v...Read More